How to sort by date in excel and keep rows together

We know that it is much easier to work with data when it’s organized and sorted.

When you have data collected over a course of time, sorting your data by date gives a good insight into how the data has progressed over time.

MS Excel makes it really easy for you to sort your data by date.

You can get it done in just a few steps.

In this tutorial, we will not only look at how you can sort your data by date, but we will also look at some of the problems you might face when trying to sort by date and give suggestions on how you can solve them.

How to Sort Dates in a Column

If your concern is just sorting one column that contains dates, it is quite simple.

Suppose you have a dataset as shown below where you need to sort only the dates in Column A.

Below are the steps to sort this data based on the date:

1. Select the column that contains the dates you want to sort.
2. Under the Data tab, you will find the ‘Sort and Filter’ group.

   This group gives you multiple options to sort your selected data. For a simple sort operation, you can either click the ‘Sort Oldest to Newest’ or

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